The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 44

The gate swung open to let him through, and he next passed successively three courts, surrounded by deep ditches filled with running water, with birds of brilliant plumage flying about the banks.

Who acts: gate, brilliant plumage · What happens: swing, let, pass, surround, fill, run · To what, where: gate, three courts, deep ditches

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gate, brilliant plumage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gate	det
2	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swung	nsubj
3	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 swung	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 let	mark
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 swung	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 let	obj
8	through	through	ADV	_	6 let	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 passed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 passed	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 passed	nsubj
12	next	next	ADV	_	13 passed	advmod
13	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swung	conj
14	successively	successively	ADV	_	13 passed	advmod
15	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 courts	nummod
16	courts	court	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 passed	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 surrounded	punct
18	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 courts	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 ditches	case
20	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 ditches	amod
21	ditches	ditch	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 surrounded	obl:agent
22	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 ditches	acl
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 water	amod
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 filled	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 birds	punct
27	with	with	ADP	_	28 birds	case
28	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 passed	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 plumage	case
30	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 plumage	amod
31	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 birds	nmod
32	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 plumage	acl
33	about	about	ADP	_	35 banks	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 banks	det
35	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 flying	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 swung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swing	past	the gate		open property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	let	to-infinitive	the gate not said here	gate	through property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	pass	past	gate	three courts	with birds of brilliant plumage; next, successively property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme court=Trajectory
4	surround	participle		three courts not said here		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	fill	participle		deep ditches not said here	with running water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with water=Instrument
6	run	gerund				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	fly	gerund	brilliant plumage not said here		about the banks	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about bank=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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